Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.
— Jenny Zhang
Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
— Jennifer Aniston
You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.
— Jane Kaczmarek
The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
— James E. Faust
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
— Jackie Kennedy
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
— Ian Dunbar
I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? You can't expect a baby to know that he's supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed.
— Holly Marie Combs
The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.
— Helena Bonham Carter
It's funny: everybody is going to have a little bit of different point of views when it comes to parenting.
— Haylie Duff
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
— Hanna Rosin
I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it's because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting.
— Gong Yoo
My parenting heroes are the Obamas! They've been married for so long, and it looks like they're having fun, and their kids are down to earth, well-adjusted, and smart. They seem to have a strong family unit that I would like to emulate in my life.
— GloZell
I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.
— Glennon Doyle Melton
A lot of kids have parents who say, 'Music is hard; maybe you should come up with a Plan B.' Whenever I hear that kind of 'advice,' I think it's bad parenting. I was lucky to have a parent who assured me it was a possibility to pursue music.
— Gerald Clayton
My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.
— Gena Lee Nolin
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
— Frederick Douglass
Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.
— Jennifer Nettles
Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
— Jenna Morasca
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
— Jane Fonda
The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
I might be at the odd press conference with a little bit of spill on me because I'm not going to hide the imperfections of parenting. I don't think anyone needs that.
— Jacinda Ardern
Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.
— Hugh Jackman
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Childhood is a short season.
— Helen Hayes
I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
— Gloria Swanson
Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a little afraid we're doing it wrong.
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
— George Will
There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
— Gary Oldman
If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means.
— Fred Rogers
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.
Whatever needed to be done, I need to know how to do it just as well as my wife. You know, for us to be able to really balance the parenting. It was very humbling, and it was also, um - terrifying. Because, you know, giving a baby a bath for the first time is one of the scariest things you can do on this whole earth.
— Jason Isbell
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
— Jane D. Hull
Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than 'Jeopardy!'
— James Holzhauer
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
— James Dobson
Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.
— Irene Rosenfeld
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
— Honore de Balzac
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
— Henry Reed
If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.
— Helen Fisher
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
— Harrison Ford
Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.
— Gordon Neufeld
Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
— Gloria Steinem
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
— Gilbert Highet
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
— George Bernard Shaw
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
— Garrison Keillor
